shikitohno

I'd like to send out a special "Fuck you" to the asshole that called this tip in, whether it turns out to be the real shooter or not. I can't imagine being such a piece of trash to go do that.

Having lived in both, I rather like being in a dense neighborhood like I am at the moment, but long term, I simply doubt I'll be able to afford it, which I think may be a pretty significant factor for many people. I already live at the extreme northern edge of my city, but if my rent goes up by more than another few hundred dollars a month, I doubt I could afford to find another place in the city that isn't in a terrible neighborhood. NIMBYs make sure that the housing crisis keeps going strong, aided by the byzantine process of community board review for any project that doesn't manage to get killed early on.

Prices are going up in all the similarly dense cities in my region. My options for the future look likely to be sprawl in my home region, with somewhat tolerable conditions despite bad Democratic policies, or sprawl in another state, with worse conditions and worse Republican policies. It's unlikely I could even afford a place in a nice urban region in red states, as their lower cost of living tends to go hand in hand with substantially lower wages. I looked into it at one point, and while apartments in that city were much nicer for maybe 40% of the cost, I would have had to take about a 50% pay cut, while also needing to buy and maintain multiple motor vehicles, as public transit was essentially nonexistent there.

No, because I don't see any point to it. If they manage to catch him, they may as well just kill him on the spot when they get him, as I have no faith that his trial would be anything more than a farce to try and present some sense of following process and norms, while guaranteeing he gets some insane sentence, only to be found mysteriously to have hung himself. I'm sure that, somehow, a jury of his peers will be comprised solely of the 12 most ghoulish residents of NYC one could find, and they'll probably try to shop around for the worst judge they can to hear the whole thing.

Closest I've come to this was twice, both from the same doctor. She was actually my favorite primary doctor I've had, up until my insurance changed and I could no longer see her without it being cripplingly expensive.

Looking at my lab work results, one time she goes, "This is really interesting, you've got all kinds of stuff going on, don't you?" and another was simply "Woah!"

Even if she wasn't generally pretty funny, would still be my favorite, since she pretty much nailed down diagnoses for several issues that had been ailing me for years within the first couple appointments, was great with giving me referrals and fighting with insurance about "Yes, this really is necessary, it's in your coverage agreement, so shut up and pay!" and got me back up to some semblance of full health in a matter of months. Like, exhaustion and joint pain so bad, I couldn't walk down the single flight of stairs to leave my apartment some days and migraines that made me have to lay in a dark room for an hour, to now just being generally always a bit more fatigued than I should be given the amount of stuff I do in a given day.

Explain to me how the MLA or APA rules for formatting citations are any different? “When it’s a periodical, you put this part in bold and that part in italics, but when it’s an entry in a journal…” Surely there’s a way to do this in plaintext with the rule of “list things about your source until you’re confident someone else can look it up.”

I'm still a bit puzzled why we can't just have various headings in the bibliography, if you want to make it absolutely unambiguous what sort of document you're referencing? Sure, your average Joe on the street might not know how to use a DOI to find a journal article, or an ISBN for a book, but what's the issue with something like this below?

Books

Cite your stuff here with all pertinent information.

Periodicals

See above

Journals

...

Films

etc.

It may not be as elegant and information dense as whatever style manual your field uses with placement and formatting of the information, but it's pretty clear what is what without needing to whip up a whole style manual that will be entirely unknown to anyone outside of your own field of study.

Then again, I'm quite firmly of the opinion that any style manual that advocates in-text citations is an abomination that deserves to have said manuals gathered up and burned, and their creators and proponents sent to re-education camps until they learn the error of their ways and admit the superiority of footnotes or end notes for readability, while maintaining ease of checking references. Personally, I favor footnotes to avoid having to flip back and forth, but I'm also a fan of end notes when there is any further commentary provided on the citation that is useful to know, but would be disruptive to the main text of the document.

I got a Steam Deck, so I've been playing a bit more now. I'm currently going back and forth between Final Fantasy II and going back to finally finish playing Umineko, so semi-JRPG for now, but mostly VN. I'm looking to gradually play through the mainline Final Fantasy games up until at least Final Fantasy IX, possibly Final Fantasy X. X was the game that actually made me take a decade long break from gaming entirely because I was so disappointed with it, so I want to give it another shot. I think part of the disappointment was that I loved IX and just wanted more of that, and that I originally traded my copy of Xenogears for a friend's copy of X in middle school, so hopefully with the passage of time I can enjoy it. Prior to the PSX games, I've only ever completed the original, so there should be lots of fun to be had.

Eventually, I'll copy over the files from my desktop that I need to be able to run the Grandia HD Remaster on it as well. That was one of my favorite games growing up, so I'm really looking forward to replaying it. Since it looks like Grandia II is playable with some tweaks as well, I guess I'll have to get that eventually. I would be really excited if they ever went and re-released the rest of the games in the series, as I never got around to playing any past the second.

Not sure my mother ever topped hot dogs. Hot dogs with Sabrett's red onions on top, and some baked beans fresh from the can were about as lofty as culinary pursuits got in my house growing up before ambition exceeded ability.

So ease back and it all will work out. Give it a few more years. We’ve come so far, maybe it is time to just sit down for a while and smell the flowers.

This attitude is acceptable when you're talking about something that is purely a matter of preference. I could say that to someone who tells me "Oh, it sucks that I can't eat out at 99% of restaurants, because I only eat biodynamic food, and nobody knows wtf I'm talking about with my weird dietary questions."

When it comes to something inherent to people, which cannot be changed and causes them to face discrimination, I find this take to be naïve, at best, and entirely ignorant and dangerous, at worst. At every turn, there are people actively trying to strip women, minorities and LGBTQ+ people of their rights in spite of active pushes to ensure they don't lose their rights and can enjoy equality with everyone else. I find it rather callous to suggest that members of these groups should just chill out and hope for the best in a few years while they face potentially existential threats from complacency.

In lots of places, they aren't liable, but many people aren't aware of this, and/or aren't in a position to fight it. It's one of those things that vary by state, but in NY, for example, it's definitely illegal.

Employers are only allowed to deduct certain items from an employee's wages, such as taxes, insurance premiums, union dues, etc. They are not permitted to charge employees for breakages, cash shortages, fines or any other losses to the business.

Restaurants tend to employ younger workers, and often hire undocumented immigrants, so it's easier for them to pull one over on their staff who may not know their rights, or be scared of retaliation if they do try to insist on their rights being respected.

Shocking absolutely nobody, there's a deafening silence from the blue MAGA brigade that, pre-election, kept crying about how not supporting Israel 100% would sink the Democrats' chances of winning 100% and that Trump would do oh so much worse. Democrats have already lost the election, and now they double down on a losing policy when they literally have nothing at stake.

The only difference between a Biden and a Trump administration for Palestine is the speed at which things occur. Biden is fundamentally onboard with the same genocidal policies as Trump is willing to support.

Would probably be more relevant to measure English-speaking countries' ability to speak whatever the most commonly studied foreign language is, rather than Japanese. That would also probably need a caveat of eliminating native speakers and/or heritage speakers from the data set in some countries, as well.

I didn't think you were, I was more saying that the loss of many of those jobs that had been outsourced in the pursuit of cheap stuff means that, even if Trump's proposed tariffs were effective at bringing those jobs back, it might not matter because they would still cost more than most residents of the US would be able to afford. At least, with current working conditions, many of these goods would simply cost more than people would be willing to pay, as we've been collectively conditioned to want as much stuff as possible, as cheap as possible. Domestic production of so many goods would require a drastic shift in consumer habits to even have a chance at being viable in the long term, but they absolutely couldn't do the sort of volume that places like China has and be able to sell at a profit, barring the implementation of Chinese-style working conditions.